1841 was also an election year in Toronto… It was the first ballot since the uniting of Upper and Lower Canada under one government, and one of the most bitterly contested in Canadian history. The election process, the violence that followed the voting, and the names of the people who were eligible to cast their […]

The annual Toronto History Lecture was inspired by former Toronto Branch Chair Paul McGrath, who died suddenly in 2008. Paul was a well-known local and family historian who relished sharing stories of Toronto in years gone by.

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